mangos & blizzard

[skutor]

Data Stream Manipulation and Data Mining

Manipulation of the data stream involves a player altering the flow of information between the World of Warcraft servers and his/her computer while data mining involves a player extracting information from said information that is not intended to be public. Data stream manipulation can be the alteration of either the incoming information or the outgoing information, and can be as minor as the manipulation of one byte of a packet, or the "sniffing" of packets for any reason.

If a player is found to have altered the data stream or performed any data mining, he/she may:

* Be temporarily suspended from the game

* Have further action taken, up to and including account closure, based on the intent of the data manipulation

https://www.wow-europe.com/ru/policy/exploitation.html#dsmdm

Wiki

You are not afraid of the police?

or how you went around the copyright law?

[TOM_RUS]

Are you Blizzard employee?

[skutor]

No, I read their rules and I was curious about this legally?

Нет, я прочитал правила игры и мне стало интересно законны ли сервера wow вообще не только мангос?

[subhuman_bob]

or the "sniffing" of packets for any reason

You have a legal right- some might even say an obligation- to be aware of what data is being sent out over your internet connection.

You are not afraid of the police?

Notice that Blizzard does not threaten legal action for this, they threaten account suspension.

[skutor]

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/legal/termsofuse.html

3) A

18) A (iii)

But what about copyright?

[subhuman_bob]

But what about copyright?

What about it? Copyright law has nothing to do with me analyzing my network traffic.

[XTZGZoReX]

And besides, MaNGOS does not "officially" do this.

[henhouse]

MaNGOS is an open-source server program compatible with World of Warcraft. They do not endorse you creating a server and importing a database(Which databases are separate from MaNGOS).

Therefore, MaNGOS doesn't have any direct involvement with that copyright.

[imblizzspy]

Besides, DB's are also legal, did they close wowhead? no, did they close thottbot? no, did they close alakhazam? no...

[phelpsben]

The seperation of database and world server is a really smart move on development and legal stand points.

Both are useless alone, and combing them is your own decision, making only you responsible.

There IS a client for MaNGOS, so MaNGOS is not a W*W server, it only resembles the way W*W works, and you can use the W*W client to play on the server.

[Patman128]

Besides, DB's are also legal, did they close wowhead? no, did they close thottbot? no, did they close alakhazam? no...

I'm fairly certain that they actually have permission from blizzard.

[phelpsben]

Wowhead data is gathered via an in game add-on, from there you upload to there site with there desktop application. I'm not sure about the others though.

[subhuman_bob]

Discussing the legality (or lack thereof) of databases is irrelevant at MaNGOS forum.

As for the packet-sniffing brought up initially, all that Blizz can do is suspend or close your account. Violating their TOS != breaking the law. Monitoring traffic on your own LAN is not illegal. Examining data sent from your own PC to the internet is not illegal. You have the right to know exactly what data a program is sending from your computer to a remote computer.

As much as Blizzard (and many other companies) would like to be able to legally prevent you from doing so, they can take no legal action.*

* At least where I live. Contact a local lawyer to determine if this is the same where you live.